British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVZ, which has been under maintenance at Cardiff-Wales since 29th April, positioned Cardiff-Wales – London Heathrow late this afternoon as BA9172. The aircraft has been reconfigured from 14F/70J/30W/185Y to 14F/86J/30W/145Y with Panasonic IFE. It is the fourteenth of eighteen aircraft to be reconfigured.

British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVZ arrived into Sao Paulo this morning as BA247 from London Heathrow (depart London Heathrow 11th December), however the return BA246 has been delayed overnight. It is not clear whether this is due to a technical or a crew issue.

British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVZ operated BA183 London Heathrow – New York JFK this evening, however instead of overnighting at New York JFK as scheduled, following the earlier B747-400 technical issue at New York JFK the aircraft turned around to operate the delayed BA116 New York JFK – London Heathrow.

Following the earlier Boeing 747-400 cabin evacuation, British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVZ was substituted to operated BA117 London Heathrow – New York JFK. However the aircraft encountered a fuel pump fire on taxi out and was forced to return to the stand.

Following the technical issue it encountered on 7th June, British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVZ departed Lagos in the early hours of this morning operating the delayed BA74 Lagos – London Heathrow of 7th June as BA74X.

Boeing 747-436 G-CIVZ operated yesterday’s delayed BA247 London Heathrow – Sao Paulo this afternoon using callsign BA9604. It will then operate today’s BA246 Sao Paulo – London Heathrow in the early hours of tomorrow as BA9603.

Following its technical issue yesterday Boeing 747-436 G-CIVZ re-entered service from New York JFK this evening operating the scheduled BA172 to London Heathrow. This meant there was a 747-400 spare at JFK and G-BNLN, which had arrived as BA115 from London Heathrow operated back to London as BA9609.